I call this approach of showing technical failures, to allow others to bear witness to ways technology could be harmful, evocative audits. The focus of my Media Lab master’s work would be “Unmasking Algorithmic Bias.” I ended the presentation with a fist pump and raised the AJL shield. Ethan shouted, “The shield is backwards.” I turned it around, ready to field questions. When the presentations were finished, a woman who had been sitting near the front approached me with a question. It was Cynthia Breazeal. Years after having Cynthia’s robot Kismet spark my curiosity, I stood in front of a
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